Library Annual Reports, 1946-2011

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Summary

Creators:
University of California, Davis. Library
Abstract:
This collection contains annual reports for the University Library as well as annual reports for Library departments. Library statistics are included in these reports.
Extent:
5.8 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], AR-203, Library Annual Reports, Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains annual reports for Library departments as well as the entire Library for 1946-2011.

Biographical / historical:

In 1908, the library of the Davis campus began as a single room monitored by the stenographer/bookkeeper of the University Farm Creamery. It housed bulletins and textbooks, and the books sent from the main library at Berkeley. In the years before World War I, the librarian also served as registrar for the Farm and occasionally taught English. In 1924, the Library occupied two rooms on the first floor, west end of the Classroom Building and housed 1,840 titles, mostly bulletins, circulars and reports from the U.S.D.A.

In 2013, the University Library of the Davis campus occupies four buildings — Shields Library, Physical Science and Engineering Library, Carlson Health Sciences Library, and Blaisdell Medical Library — and holds more than 3 million titles.

Processing information:

Sara Gunasekara processed this collection with assistance from student employee Carena Leung. Additions to the collection were made by student employee Kelsey Haydon.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in four series: 1. Department Annual Reports, 2. Library Annual Reports, 3. Carlson Health Sciences Library Annual Reports and Statistics, and 4. Blaisdell Medical Library Annual Reports.

Physical location:
Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], AR-203, Library Annual Reports, Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Davis, Special Collections, UC Davis Library
100 NW Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292, US
Contact:
(530) 752-1621
speccoll@ucdavis.edu
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